- a variation of Wilfred.
Wilfrid
Britishnoun
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For writers in the 1960s, middle-class infidelity offered a keyhole to deeper social themes—“the relation of individual to collective decadence,” the critic Wilfrid Sheed wrote of Updike’s fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
“Gen Z has been fueling this movement toward a lot of things,” said Melise Panetta, a marketing lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2025
The Wilfrid Laurier University professor, who teaches courses on autobiography and life writing, argues that diaries are not really ever private, regardless of what the author intends.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023
For the new research, biologist Jennifer Baltzer of Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University and her colleagues used these data to choose nine overwinter sites for a closer look at the soil and vegetation involved.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2023
But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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